“I spent my childhood and most of my teenage years very quietly. Countless days reading people and especially their ‘non-words’. A ‘word-gesture’, a ‘word-gaze’, a ‘word-breath’ contains so much truth and secret that I spend my life trying to figure out the paths that they inscribe into the body. I believe that this is the place where the piece is settled.”
- Gaya de Medeiros
Atlas da Boca explores two trans bodies through the mouth. As a symbol, the mouth becomes the interface between the public and the private, between the erotic and the political, between silence and the word that lasts. Questioning the “words-gestures”, this piece delves into the moments in which the mouth hardens, letting the words come out roaring.
CreditDirection and production | Gaya de Medeiros Co-creation and Performance | Ary Zara, Gaya de Medeiros Provocation, conception, and design of “Brief Atlas of the Mouth | João Emediato Video | Ary Zara Light design | André de Campos Technical Director | Ricardo Pimentel Sound operation | Milton Estevam/Gustavo Monteiro Translation and subtitles | Joana Frazão Management | Marta Moreira/Irreal
Coproduction | Alkantara and Companhia Olga Roriz Support | Self-Mistake Institutional Support | República Portuguesa – Cultura / Direção-Geral das Artes
Support to the presentations in Bangkok:Embassy of Portugal in Bangkok / Camões – Institute for Cooperation and Language
Date and Time: 8 NOV at 20:00Venue: Sodsai Pantoomkomol Centre for Dramatic Arts
